Word: tree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drives his 90-ft. rig from Santa Fe to Washington this week, heads may turn. After all, it's not every day a gargantuan blue spruce is moved from the forests of northern New Mexico to the groomed lawns of Capitol Hill. This is the first year a living tree -- complete with a 40-ton root ball -- will serve as the nation's Christmas symbol. The 60-ft. giant will be garnished with strings of chili-pepper lights and 10,000 handmade ornaments from New Mexico, including silver coyotes, miniature pueblos, tin stars and brass jewelry...
...staff says Vellucci lacks energy. We saw the 76-year-old Vellucci last Arbor Day, bravely standing up to a chainsaw attack at the Liberty Tree re-dedication ceremony, and we wish we had his energy...
...break the mold, Marden in the mid-'80s started doing calligraphic drawings, not with a brush but with twigs of ailanthus wood -- ailanthus being the common weed tree that grows in every sidewalk crack in Lower Manhattan but is known to the Chinese as the tree of heaven. Stuck in a long holder and dipped in ink, these flexible little sticks delivered a blobby, rough line, far from the look of classical brush drawing but with some of its improvised character...
Militant gays seek power and protection by outing "closet" homosexuals; Afrocentrists, in extreme cases, speak of standard English as the "oppressor's language" advocating "culturally relevant curricula" in which the "home and community dialects" are recognized; Jewish extremists denounce the Christmas tree as a symbol of oppression and insensitivity. Segregated into these enclaves, the victimized (both real and constructed) not only contribute to a culture of separatism, but inadvertently play into the hands of those who would deny them any retribution or justice...
...were curious about what "soft sculpture" really entails, so we called Christine K. Lee '93, one of the project's organizers. The soft sculptors will paint on hundreds of T-shirts and arrange them in either "a pile on the steps of Lamont," or "string them around a tree." Everyone who passes by the spectacle may take one of the shirts, thereby changing the size of the pile and contributing to what Lee calls an "evolving work of art." This project, remember, got four hundred dollars...